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A fake shabti or "answerer" figurine acquired by GH Bourne in 1915 as an imitation item to send home to Australia. The current whereabouts of the artefact is unknown. Bourne acquired a series of genuine and imitation artefacts in Egypt which are…

A fake shabti or "answerer" figurine acquired by GH Bourne in 1915 as an imitation item to send home to Australia. The current whereabouts of the artefact is unknown. Bourne acquired a series of genuine and imitation artefacts in Egypt which are…

An Egyptian shabti figurine, described as an "answerer" in "blue enamel", broken, it was purchased from the sale room of the Cairo Museum in 1915 by George Herbert Bourne. This artefact was sent home to Australia in March 1915 but its current…

A fake Egyptian shabti in the form of a mummiform figure inscribed with a nonsense inscription. The fabric is mostly grey but the surface is obscured by buff accretions with dark brown in the crevices. These accretions have a distincitve 'bubbly'…

A fake Egyptian shabti in the form of a mummiform figure inscribed with a nonsense inscription. The fabric is mostly grey with buff accretions in the crevices. The reverse is flat with some mottling of darker grey and brown. The figure has a…

A fake Egyptian shabti in the form of a woman, naked to the waist, wearing a long skirt inscribed with unintelligible glyphs. The fabric is mostly orange, tending to buff over the torso and grey over the head and rear of the right shoulder. The…

A shabti of the Egyptian Late Period in an olive green faience, with areas of a brighter green, probably the original colour, on the nose and shoulders. The shabti is mummiform with a nemes headdress and false beard with crosshatching. The arms are…

Shabti, terracotta, modern, dark grey shabti in coarse terracotta with hands folded over chest and cartouche of Thutmose III above. This famous type of replica shabti is produced widely in Egypt during the 19th and 20th centuries for the tourist…